Feck It, No More

Jules' heart stopped. What she saw in the minutes before it started again changed everything she believed. This is the 16-minute version of one of our most-watched conversations: the childhood "imaginary friend" who turned out to be real, a priest telling a ten-year-old she was touched by the devil, a mystery illness doctors couldn't explain, and the night she collapsed in a frie...

Last week, Brandy told us she'd hit the wall: burnt out, running a food truck alone, crying on the floor of the cart, unable to picture a future. This week she's back, and we go somewhere she's never been: ten, twenty, fifty years ahead. Brandy has learned where her limit is. What she hasn't learned yet is how to stop the job she resents from running her whole life. In this coachin...

Burnout has become so common that many of us have started treating it as normal. In this conversation, Kelly Swingler explores why burnout is about much more than simply being stressed at work — and why we may need to pause, reconnect with ourselves, and honestly ask whether the life we're living is the life we want. What’s working? What isn’t? What needs to change? Where do you genuinely want...

Brandy built the thing a lot of people dream about, her own food business, doing what she loves. Three years later she is running it alone, has not had a real day off in years, and recently ended up scream-crying on the kitchen floor while customers waited at the window. This one is different: you are in the room for a real coaching session while she is still in the thick of it.     Brandy is 32 a...

Rick had what he calls a near-perfect childhood, a holiday house, rep basketball, a stepdad who treated him as his own. None of it explains what came next: 23 years lost to heroin, ice and benzos, and more than ten of the last sixteen years spent behind bars. It started small. Pot at 13, speed at 15, and a life he says was "unmanageable from the get-go." By 20 he was inside for the first time; by...

Her heart stopped. What she says happened next changed her life. At 23, Jules was dealing with two young children, divorce, unexplained illness and experiences she couldn't explain. Then came the moment that split her life into a before and after. In this conversation, Jules shares her near-death experience, her life review, meeting Jesus and the message she believes she was given before returning...

At 16, Holly became addicted to heroin. At 20, she was sent to prison for heroin offences and served five years. When she was released, she started using again, moved to Thailand, and eventually found herself facing a sentence that would change her life forever. Arrested in Thailand and handed a 33-year sentence, Holly walked into a prison she describes as "hell on earth". Cells holding...

For 12 years, nobody saw what was really happening behind Jonny's party mask. From the outside, Jonny looked like the life of the party. Inside, he was battling anxiety, shame, negative self-talk, repeated binge drinking, and a growing sense that he was losing himself. He wore different masks around different people until he eventually forgot who he really was. In this conversation, Jonny shar...

She Lost Millions Before Losing Everything Else | Andrea Simmons Andrea Simmons shares her story of ICE addiction, crystal meth addiction, homelessness, domestic violence, recovery and resilience . After first trying ICE at 42 years old, Andrea's life spiralled into addiction, isolation and the loss of nearly everything she had built. Today she is the founder of the Australian Anti Ice Campaig...

She ran a national team. Then she fell asleep on the couch. Sue West spent close to a decade at the top of a senior research leadership role in Melbourne — the kind of job she used to love, full of travel and purpose. Underneath it, she was single-parenting three kids, caring for sick elderly parents, and working 14 to 15 hour days. Then COVID took away everything that had kept her going, and left...

He broke his neck at 25, halfway through medical school. Dinesh Palipana moved to Australia from Sri Lanka when he was 10. He became a lawyer first, chasing a version of success that left him depressed for years before he even knew why. A doctor's kindness became the reason he switched to medicine. Then, on a wet summer night, his car hit a puddle at speed, aquaplaned, and rolled. He broke his nec...

Angie Verzeletti was 15 years and 3 months old the first time she took ice. She'd met a boy - older, dangerous, exciting - and the first night they hung out, he introduced her to methamphetamine. Within six months he was physically abusing her. She thought that was what love looked like. By 16 she was selling drugs to support a habit, living in penthouse suites, surrounded by fast cars and cash, a...

Kate Seselja had made a conscious decision to avoid drugs. She barely drank. She knew addiction ran in her family and had chosen to stay away from it. At 18, her boyfriend sat her down at a poker machine. She put $20 in and won. That win was the hook. Within a month she was putting her entire pay in on payday — it would last an hour. She lost $30,000 in a single month. For 15 years the machines ha...

Mark Kempster knew he had a gambling problem within two years. He hid it for another eight. His first bet was at 14, at the local TAB, surrounded by the sporting club culture where a beer and a punt after footy was just what you did. Then smartphones arrived. By 20 he had a dozen gambling apps and accounts with all of them. Across the next decade he lost at least $100,000. But the money wasn't the...

Here's the truth about willpower: it was never going to be enough. After 22, neuroscience says 90% of what you do runs on your subconscious mind. The habits you've built, good and bad, become automated programs your brain runs on repeat to save energy. And when you try to overpower those programs with willpower, you're fighting biology with a resource that runs out exactly when you're most stresse...

Jaron's mum told him recently that the first time he was homeless, he was nine months old. He was a street kid in Perth. He spent most of his life as an alcoholic — by his own account, drunk for the better part of two decades. At 37, he suffered a stroke. His family fell apart. He lost his job. And he found himself homeless again — as if twenty years had simply gone down the drain. He ended up at...

​Simon Fenech had everything—a multi-time Australian kickboxing champion, a corporate salary, and a beautiful home. Then, a severe workplace accident changed his life forever, leading to a debilitating spinal injury and a dark spiral into chronic pain, prescription medication, and methamphetamine addiction. ​After losing his marriage, his career, and spending time inside a maximum-security prison...

Libby Ward grew up in a turbulent home. Single mum, mental health disorders, 18 moves before she turned 18, a psychologically abusive stepfather on a remote farm, and a role she had held since she was eight years old: the person who made sure everyone else was okay. When she became a mother herself, she performed the life. Matching outfits. Holiday cards. Clean house. Home-cooked meals. Everything...

Kayli Halliwell spent eleven years in Melbourne going out three times a week, using substance and alcohol to push through, and waiting until everyone else was drunk before she could say what she actually thought. On the outside it looked like freedom. On the inside she was depressed, disconnected, and kept asking herself the same question: is there something wrong with me? Then Melbourne went into...

Mikael Avatar grew up in Sweden with cerebral palsy and decided at ten years old he was going to the Olympics. He trained every morning from four in the morning. He was coached by his own training group as a child — people aged seven to thirty-one who followed the books he was reading because he had no other guide. He trained for seventeen years. In August 1996 at the Atlanta Paralympics, with lig...

Kelly Swingler was passing out on train platforms. Falling from the top of escalators to the bottom. Getting up. Going to work. She never missed a day. She thought that was strength.   It was burnout. And it nearly killed her.   By the time she received two phone calls in 48 hours — the first telling her that the woman who replaced her in her corporate role had died alone in a hotel room; the seco...

Simone O'Brien was a single mother of three who chose a man from internet dating because he had a police check. She thought that meant safe.   Nine months later, he came to her door. What followed lasted ten minutes — 45 to 50 blows with a baseball bat.   Her skull is now titanium. Her right eye is a prosthetic. Her son Zach, ten years old, stood in the hospital corridor every day and vomited...

Your logic brain says you’ve passed the point of no return, but that feeling in your gut says you still have time to add value and find freedom. Glenn Monaghan dives into the reality of starting over later in life and why the "midlife crisis" label is often just a cover for a long-overdue awakening. Glenn opens up about his own turning point, triggered by the death of a close friend and...

The whole world shut down, and for the first time, Amanda had nowhere to hide from the truth: she didn't recognize her own life anymore. Working temp jobs and pushing paperwork, she hit a professional rock bottom where the unhappiness became impossible to ignore. Amanda joins Glenn to discuss her "feck it" turning point and her unexpected leap into the commercial construction industr...

You’re standing in the gap between the life you’re living and the one you deserve, paralyzed by the unknown. It’s easy to judge people for staying in abusive relationships, dead-end jobs, or toxic cycles, but the reality is that comfort is a dangerous drug. In this conversation, I’m breaking down why we choose the familiar—even when it’s destroying us—and how to identify the "comfort trap" that ke...